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I was catching up on some reading when I came across an interesting article by Kolie Moore of Training Peaks about FTP testing and training, you can read the full article here. It’s fairly heavy reading for your every day, amateur cyclist as it is directed toward coaches, but
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Fabio Aru is looking to hit reset heading into the 2019 season after his “darkest moments” yet during 2018. Aru abandoned the Giro d’Italia, renounced his sponsors during a crash at the Vuelta a España, and sat out of Italy’s World Championships team. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Wired takes a look at the Hour Record and why it’s almost impossible to ride a bike 60km in an hour. Of all the ways people can torture themselves on a bike, this has to be the worst. The head game alone would do me in. The hour record
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Kurzgesagt asks: “Is Organic Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam?” The answer, like most things, is it’s complicated. Taking into account the results of dozens of studies (extensive list of sources), they examine the evidence that organic food is better for our health and for the environment. When
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The start of a new year means new resolutions. However, without a well laid out plan, most won’t make it further than a month or two. Having a goal (or a few) for the year is a good start, but without a plan to get there you’re just
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For 15 years I almost exclusively lifted weights for my strength training exercise, but recently I’ve been trying to move to a more holistic approach. I use bodyweight movements for warmup or cooldown and even swap out bodyweight movements for weighted movements altogether, it adds variety to my workouts
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For hunter-gatherers living 10,000 years ago, domesticating plants and animals created a surplus of food that led to stability and advancement of technology and culture. But now as the world’s population blasts past 7.4 billion, land and water use has become constrained. Now we have factory farming,
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Peter Sagan pulls off some pretty unbelievable stuff on the bike, not to even mention his sick wheelies. But who knew he took it to the next level off the bike as well. His gym workout is insane. The dude is a mobility master to say the least. I shouldn’
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Ted King rode his way to a second Dirty Kanza win over the weekend. Kansas was brutally hot, humid and windy, but despite the conditions King went solo at 40 miles from the finish and stayed off the front for the win. King’s first victory came in 2016 when
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I sleep in late whenever I can. I don’t pull of 11 or even noon like I did as a teenager anymore, but if I can stay in bed until 9 I’m going to go for it. I struggle to get to bed early enough to get a
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Woah. That’s about the most nuanced thing I have to say about Froome’s incredible Stage 19 solo attack. I knew stage 19 with its gravel section and summit finish on the Jafferau had the potential to shake things up, but after Froome’s less than stellar first two
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Finding the right amount of effort to stay on track with training can be tricky. Too much and you’re over-training and doing more harm than good. Not enough and you won’t make any gains. Strava has rolled out a new tool to help. Relative Effort is a new